@dmlloyd note that this PR will change the version in main to 2.999-SNAPSHOT - mostly because otherwise updating the next version will be a pain. It could also be changed to 999-SNAPSHOT if you prefer - it won't conflict with Gizmo 1 even if we push this infra to Gizmo 1 too given they have different GAs.

Let us know what you think.

It isn't that painful to use the next stable version (in this case 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT), we've done this plenty of times in the past. What problem is being solved here?

I'm fine with either, I guess @gsmet concerns' is because once 2.1.x is released you need to change that too, whereas if you use 2.999-SNAPSHOT you don't ever touch that variable

Exactly that ^

But the idea is that you could trigger the releases yourself from now on so we can do whatever you prefer :)

I reverted to 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT for now, we can discuss about the 999 idea in a later stage